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wf_devloper
Silver Member
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Hi,
I have a variable in report heading and that variable contains HTML tags (like 
<HTML><B>
)in it. Its currently erroring out becoz of the '<' sign. is there any way to somehow mask the '<' sign and still retain the HTML tags.
I already tried doing a computed field for the "," sign but it adds a space after the sign and becoz of that the tag is not valid anymore.
and also i cannot create a computed field with that variable and use the field in the heading as my result set has more than million records.
Here is the Sample code.

-SET &HEAD = '<html><body><div> This is test sample </div> 

 need to retain the html tags </p> </body> </html>';
-SET &HEAD1 = '<LT|html><LT|body><LT|div> This is test sample <LT|/div> <LT|p> need to retain the html tags <LT|/p> <LT|/body> <LT|/html>';

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COMPUTE LT/A1='<';
HEADING
-*"&HEAD.EVAL"
-*"&HEAD1.EVAL"
" "
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE PCHOLD  FORMAT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
TYPE=REPORT,GRID=OFF,FONT='ARIAL',SIZE=8,STYLE=NORMAL, $
TYPE=HEADING,ITEM=1,SIZE=10,STYLE=BOLD,COLSPAN =3,$
ENDSTYLE
END

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,


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Posts: 39 | Registered: July 21, 2009Report This Post
wf_devloper
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quote:
Originally posted by wf_devloper:
Hi,
I have a variable in report heading and that variable contains HTML tags (like <|HTML>,<|div> adding '|' to retain the tag in this document)in it. Its currently erroring out becoz of the '<' sign. is there any way to somehow mask the '<' sign and still retain the HTML tags.
I already tried doing a computed field for the "," sign but it adds a space after the sign and becoz of that the tag is not valid anymore.
and also i cannot create a computed field with that variable and use the field in the heading as my result set has more than million records.
Here is the Sample code.

-SET &HEAD = '<|html><|body><|div> This is test sample <|/div> need to retain the html tags <|/p> <|/body> <|/html>';
-SET &HEAD1 = ' This is test sample need to retain the html tags ';

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COMPUTE LT/A1='<';
HEADING
-*"&HEAD.EVAL"
-*"&HEAD1.EVAL"
" "
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
TYPE=REPORT,GRID=OFF,FONT='ARIAL',SIZE=8,STYLE=NORMAL, $
TYPE=HEADING,ITEM=1,SIZE=10,STYLE=BOLD,COLSPAN =3,$
ENDSTYLE
END


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susannah
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try using &|lt; and &|rt; for the left pointy bracket and right pointy bracket.

when you want to post code to this forum, surround your code with the code tags (see the little red icon right on the top of your edit message window)



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wf_devloper
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Hi Susannah,
I tried &|lt; and &|gt; but they are not getting replaced as '<' and '>' in the Excel report heading output.


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Crymsyn
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I tried storing &HEAD into a define and then used the define field in the header and it shows the text.

-SET &HEAD = '<|html><|body><|div> This is test sample <|/div> need to retain the html tags <|/p> <|/body> <|/html>';
-SET &HEAD1 = ' This is test sample need to retain the html tags ';

DEFINE FILE CAR
HEAD_DESC/A&HEAD.LENGTH='&HEAD.EVAL';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COMPUTE LT/A1='<';
HEADING
"<HEAD_DESC"
"&HEAD1.EVAL"
" "
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS OFF
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
TYPE=REPORT,GRID=OFF,FONT='ARIAL',SIZE=8,STYLE=NORMAL, $
TYPE=HEADING,ITEM=1,SIZE=10,STYLE=BOLD,COLSPAN =3,$
ENDSTYLE
END


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Posts: 78 | Registered: November 08, 2010Report This Post
wf_devloper
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Hi Crymsyn,
I cannot use Define or Compute as my report result set is very big (more than million)


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Waz
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What happens when you use a define ?

It should work.


Waz...

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FrankDutch
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More then a million?

I hope nobody needs to read or print this report.
I would kost many trees.

Can you explain why you want to do this ?
I get the feeling there is more behind this question.

Who needs 10.000 pages of printed data...




Frank
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databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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Alex
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quote:
Who needs 10.000 pages of printed data...


Only someone thoroughly unschooled in the use of a computer and too intimidated by a keyboard to learn.


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Waz
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wf_developer,

How is this output going to be used ?

You are talking about more than a million rows.

I did not think any excel would read all of it.


Waz...

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wf_devloper
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Basically its a scheduled report which gets bursted to many users and most of the times the result set before bursting is more than million records.


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HTML, PDF, EXCEL
 
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Mighty Max
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Technique I learned from Francis.
Look at this post [CLOSED] Escape Character for Subfoots
Hopefully your burst will still work. Let us know.

  
-SET &LETH   = '<';
-SET &LESS  = '!IBI.AMP.LETH;';
-SET &HEAD   = &LESS |'html>' | &LESS | 'body>' | &LESS | 'div> This is test sample' | 
-              &LESS | '/div> need to retain the html tags ' |
-              &LESS | '/p> '  | &LESS | '/body>' | &LESS  | '/html>';
-SET &HEAD1 = ' This is test sample need to retain the html tags ';


TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COMPUTE LT/A1='<';
HEADING
"&HEAD"
"&HEAD1"
" "

ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE HOLD AS H1 FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
TYPE=REPORT,GRID=OFF,FONT='ARIAL',SIZE=8,STYLE=NORMAL, $
TYPE=HEADING,ITEM=1,SIZE=10,STYLE=BOLD,COLSPAN =3,$
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN

SET HTMLFORMTYPE = XLS
-HTMLFORM H1


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Waz
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I don't think the burst will work with the HTMLFORM.

If it doesn't, I would suggest the DEFINE option.


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